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How to Login to My Account
Check your loans, overdues and charges
Renew online
Reservations
View history
Check your personal details online
Update your email address online
Create Alert Profiles
PIN numbers
Change your PIN online

 
• My Account provides an overview of your current status within the library.

• It also provides access to some great new services from home or in the library.

• Please note:
  • You do not have to be logged in to My Account to search the catalogue.
     
  • If logging in from home, you may have to set your firewall to allow the library site as a trusted address.
     
 How to Login to My Account

Read through the following instructions first,  then go to the Catalogue by clicking on the yellow Catalogue button at the top right menu or click here for the Catalogue.

At the left hand menu of the
Catalogue look for My Account
At ID - type your library card number with no spaces
At PIN - type in your PIN number - see below.
• Click on Login.

• Click the My Details button to return to this area after a search.

To protect your privacy when finished please remember to click Log Out.
 

 Check your loans, overdues and charges
When logged in to My Account you may view the current status of all your loans.

• Click on Items Overdue or Current Loans to view details and due dates. 

 
 Renew online
• You may renew your loans from home or within the library if logged in to My Account. 

• Items may be renewed once only. 
• Please renew items one at a time.  More>>

 
 Reservations
• In My Account you may check the progress of your reserves and, if needed, cancel reserves online. 

• You may also place reserves from the catalogue without typing in your library card number each time. (Charge $1.00 for each reserve.)  More>>
 
View history
• You may view your previous loans and reserves in My Account if this function is activated on your card.  Ask at the issue desk to have this done.

• An alert will also pop up if you try to have an item issued that you have already had previously. This may be over-ridden if you want to take it out again.
 

 Check your personal details online
• In My Account you may view the personal details held on your library card.

Click on the Personal Details tag to view these.

If anything needs updating, please tell us next time you are in the library.
 

 Update Email Address online

• You may update your email address online if logged in to My Account.

• Click on the Personal Details tag, then type in your new email address.

Click the Update button.

• Email is used to send your Alert Profiles (see below).

• You may also ask to have your library notices sent to your email address.
 

 Create Alert Profiles online

• In My Account you may create any number of Alert Profiles so that you are notified by email of new books by your favourite authors or in your field of interest or study.

You may update these profiles online or cancel any no longer needed. 

• Click on the New Alert Profile tag to create these.  Alert Profile Help...

 

PIN Number
• Ask at the circulation desk to have a PIN number added to your library card.

• You may change your PIN number at any time online.  Please note that the only format for your PIN number is four digits, e.g. 3256
 
To change your PIN number online:
• Login to My Account using your library card number as ID and your PIN number.

• Click on the tab Personal Details.

• Type in your old PIN number, then your new number. Please note that the only format for your PIN number is four digits, e.g. 3256

• Confirm this by typing your new PIN again.

• Click the Update button.
 

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